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To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (7296)	4/18/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: RFH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi, Tom. Speaking of income, I've had quite an active week with my AIM accounts! Had 5 trades this week, which I believe is a record for me. Had a buy of 10% more (in dollars) in my gold stock DROOY, two sells (I cheated) in Indosat, (38% return, annualized 81%), another sell in my Korean fund, as well as my Argentina Bank, BFR. I don't have BFR on my web page, but I'm considering taking Wendy's off and adding BFR. That may be a disappointment to all of the frosty fans out there. After a real rocky start in BFR, I'm currently showing a return of 23%, and my Quicken program calculates this as an average annual return of, get this, 135%. I started this AIM account on January 11th of this year. I'm also proud to announce that, as of Jan 1, I have had just over one thousand "hits" to my web page: elnet.com Maintaining the page is a labor of love, and it seems that a lot of folks are at least interested in using AIM as their management tool in this volatile stock market. The page is merely a means of instructing and demonstrating the power of this wonderful strategy. Thanks to all here who have inspired me. Sincerely, RFH

To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (7296)	4/19/1999 8:22:00 AM
From: Bernie Goldberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi, The Dogs have a lot going for them: 1 Low trading costs( You make 4 trades at the start and then on average 4 to 6 trades a year afterwards which means very low commissions. 2 Since no trades are done in less than 365 days there are low taxes. 3 All the picks pay dividends between 2% and 3%. this isn't much, but I think it is what keeps the system viable. 4 If you start your Dogs off with more than $5000 the dividends will more than cover the trading costs at $12 per trade. Since January 4th this year I am sitting on MO, JPM, CAT, and MMM. The only loser in the bunch is MO and that's one that should not have been included this year. It's another case where I have fallen in love with a stock and been wrong. I also fell in love with MRK and DD, both of which I converted to AIM accts. MRK just kept going up up up. DD went up for a while and then dropped precipitously. Now it's going up again and is turning into a pretty fair AIM stock. One interesting thing about the Dogs: Two years ago we bought MMM at about 65. A year later we sold it at about 94. At that price it was no longer a dog. MMM has come back to the kennel and this year we bought it back at 72. Just like AIM only slower. We even got buy about 30% more shares because of the growth we had last year. Bernie P.S. The timing model is starting to look interesting. It is getting closer than it has been in the last 2 yrs to a sell signal. It has been moving closer for the past 12 weeks. The trigger trips at 20 weeks.

To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (7296)	4/21/1999 1:46:00 AM
From: RFH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi, Tom. Had another sell in my energy service sector mutual fund, and I'm currently a healthy 18% in the black now. It's been a long fight with this one, but AIM got me through it. After 6 buys, beginning on July 14th of last year, one sell, 5 more buys, and now 4 sells in a row, it looks like I'm on a roll here! I couldn't help but update my graphs and charts, so if anyone is interested in the energy or energy service sector, you can view this info at: elnet.com Click on the fund symbol to see the updated charts. Sincerely, RFH